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Acknowledgements; Introduction; Civility, Civil Society and Democracy;Political Theory: Where's the Household in Civil Society?; Empirical Studies:It's Hard to Measure the Table; The Art of Conversation and Civic Virtues ofThoughtfulness and Generosity; Meals, Conversations and Women; What Changesare Needed?; Part One: Household Foodwork; Chapter 1: The Time Crunch; Farmand City Foodwork; Women's Labor Force Participation and OverworkedAmericans; Technology and Food Tasks; The Second Shift and the Globalizationof Housework; Invisible Foodwork; Solutions to the Time Crunch; Chapter 2:Domesticity: Meals, Obligation and Gratitude; Political and GenderedDomesticity; Deciding on the Menu: Household Variations; Gift, Obligation andthe Economy of Gratitude; Psychological Memories and Social Connections;Escape from the Household with Commercial Food; Chapter 3: American Food;American Food as Multi-Ethnic and Regional Corporations Urge Immigrants toEat American; Racial and Ethnic Pride in Foodways; The Slow Food Movement;American foodways, the Obesity Crisis and Global Warming; Part Two: TableConversation; Chapter 4: Conversation and Manners; Conversations andCivility; Civil Society: Light Social Conversations and Heavy PoliticalArguments; The Lost Art of Conversation in the United States; Upper Class andFeminine: Courtesy, Civility, Politeness and Manners; The Universality ofTable Manners; Manners and the Middle Class